Wojciech Puchar wrote:
and subscribe. is having as much "users" as possible really good for FreeBSD? i don't think so.There's no law or even a policy against i...ts using FreeBSD.OF COURSE. but how usable such forum be for "specialists" (i mean just someone bit advanced)?will it be separate forum or integrated with THIS mailinglist?
It's independent of the mailing lists -- there's a feed of the News articles that appear here: http://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash.html plus Security Advisories and (I think) Errata notices from the RSS channels on the web site, but that's about it. So far.
Having a larger user-base is definitely a good thing. That means attracting complete beginners by what ever means work, since today's Noob is potentially tomorrow's elite Kernel programmer. If the FreeBSD project can make itself accessible through all of the sort of web-based tools now generally popular, so much the better for the future of the project.
Not that I expect the forums to consist entirely of questions on the level of 'Which one is the "any" key?' So far the standard of questions and answers appears to be at least on a par with the general traffic on this list. Early days yet but the auguries are good.
Cheers,
Matthew
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